Garment



Jan. 5, 1937. Q A BERMAN 2,066,324

GARMENT Original Filed June 12, 1933 I NVEN TOR.

Patented Jan. 5, 1937 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 675,367, June 12, 1933.

This application August 28, 1936, Serial No. 98,433

This application is a reiiled application, the original application being Serial No. 675,367 filed June 12, 1933.

My invention relates to improvements in garments, and objects of my invention are first, to provide means by which a garment can easily be made comfortably and healthfully adjustable to the body of the wearer; second, to provide a garment that will fit persons of various sizes, types or builds and third to provide means by which a garment of this type can be made healthiully and comfortably self-adjusting to variations in body measurements, and automatically conformable to varying positions of the diaphragm, muscles and other parts of the body in standing, stooping, walking, bending, sitting, running, exercising, playing, working, etc., at the same time retaining its fit, style and sightliness without exposing the body or undergarments of the wearer.

To fully explain the advantages of my invention I shall refer briefly to the construction of well-known types of wrap-a-round garments. One at these, generally known as the Hoover apron, has belt portions which pass through vertical openings in the sides of the garment and join with a button in the back. These garments have not to my knowledge beenprovided with means for conforming to the body of the wearer.

as claimed herein, nor for automatic adjustment to variations in the waist measurement of the wearer, as claimed herein, and the vertical open- ,ings tend to gap and expose the body or the undergarments of the wearer. Another garment of the wrap-a-round type is constructed similarly to the Hoover apron except that the belt portions instead of buttoning together at the back, tie together in a knot. The disadvantages of this type of garment are numerous. Thereis danger 40 ture or other objects.

Furthermore, if the strings are drawn tightly the body of the-wearer is held under constant pressure, a condition not conducive to the comfort or health of the wearer. This pressure increases in varying positions of the body in motion. lapped-over portions sag, causing the garment to present an unsightly appearance. Besides the 50 slipping of the strings through the vertical openings in "the sides of the garment, tends to cause them to twist, making'it necessary for the wearer to give thought and timeto straighten out the strings every time the garment is put on, and in 55 this type of garment there is also a tendency for of the strings being caught in machinery, iu'rni- If the strings are not pulled tightly, the

the vertical openings to gap and expose the body or the undergarments of the wearer.

I attain the objects of my invention by mechanism illustrated in the accompanying drawing in which Fig. 1 is a front view showing the ap- 5 pearance of the garment just after it has been slipped on the wearer; Fig. 2 is a cross sectional view showing one side only of the garment lapped over and fixed in place; Fig. 3 isa cross sectional view showing both sides lapped into their 10 final position and held by linked buttons; Fig. 4

is a front elevation showing construction of the linked buttons.

Similar numerals. refer to similar parts throughout the several views. The bodice Ill, 15 and skirt II, and the belt between them constltute the basic garment. The belt itself comprises a main section, the elastic sections l3 and I6 and the tabs i2 and IT. The main section 2| contains a series of button holes I5, 20, 24, 20 and 25, and each of the tabs l2 and I1 contain button holes I 4 and i8. v

In donning the garment the wearer slips it over her shoulders, wraps the skirt II to the righti'slde of the body as shown in Fig. 2 and passes but- 5 ton l9 through holes I 4 and I5, then wraps the right side of skirt 23 to the left side of the body and passes button l9 through button holes 22 and I8. For closer adjustment button hole 24 or 25 is used instead of button hole 22. The elastic 30 sections i3 and I6, automatically provide the V8": riable adjustment for the fixed spaces between the button holes. I

Having described my invention, what I claim as new and wish to protect by Letters Patent is:

1. .In a garment of the wrap-a-round type, the combination of a bodice and a skirt with a belt of non-elastic material sewn in between the bodice and the skirt, the belt being extended at one of its outer edges by the addition of a piece 40 of elastic material, means for releasably securing the elastic material to one side of the garment and means-for releasably securing the other end 0! the belt to the opposite side of the garment, thereby releasably retaining'the lapped-over-portions of the garment in corresponding positions.

2. In a garment oi the wrap-a-round type, the combination of a bodice and a skirt with-a belt 01' non-elastic material sewn in between the bodice and the skirt, the belt being extended at its outer edges by the addition of pieces of elastic material, to the outer ends of which elastic material are-fixed tabs of non-elastic material, in each of which tabs a button hole is set, the main portion' of the belt also containing button holes,

together with means for holding the lapped-over portions 01' the garment in corresponding positions.

3. In a garment oi the wrap-a-round type, the

combination of a bodice and a skirt with a belt of button hole worked in the pointed end of each of said tabs, the main portion of the belt containing a series 01 button holes on each side-thereof, and linked buttons releasably securing either side of the front of the garment in a lapped over position on top of the other side, conforming the garment to the body of the wearer and automatically adjusting it-to variations of the diaphragm, muscles and other parts of the body oi the wearer.

' OSCAR A. BERMAN. 

